The Easy Winners

The Easy Winners
by Scott Joplin

Front cover of the Easy Winners sheet music shows four line drawings of American sport - Baseball, Horseracing, American football, and yacht racing. The title is shown at the top of the page in large black lettering

Cover to the first edition sheet music
Genre Ragtime
Form Rag
Published 1901
Publisher Shattinger Music Company
Instrument: Piano Solo

"The Easy Winners" is a ragtime composition by Scott Joplin. One of his most popular works, it was one of the four that had been recorded as of 1940.[1]

Musical structure

Intro A A B B A Trio-Intro C C D D

The last five measures of the C and D strains are essentially identical, producing what Jasen and Tichenor call a "strong echo-like effect."[2]

Publication history

The copyright was registered October 10, 1901. The Shattinger Music Company of St. Louis, Missouri bought the piece and published a simplified version. Only later did John Stillwell Stark publish it as-written.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Classical Archives". Retrieved 2009-04-03.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jasen, David A.; Trebor Jay Tichenor (1978). Rags and Ragtime: A Musical History. New York, NY: Dover Publications, Inc. p. 88. ISBN 0-486-25922-6.

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